Expressing or packing screw.



H. AUCHU.

BXPBESSING 0B PACKING SCREW.

APPLIUATION HLBD BEP'LM, 1907.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

N @MW woanton Quorum,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY AUCHU, OF EMPORIUM, PENNSYLVANIA.

EXPRESSING OR PACKING SCREW.

To. all whom it may concern:

Be it. known that, l, HENRY AUcnu, a citizen ol the United States, residing at Emporium, county of Cal'neron and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Expressing or Packing Screws, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to expressing or packing screws generally and, more particularly,tothose which are used in machines for forming explosive gelatin into a cartridge or rope.

Packing or expressing screws are commonly used for forcing a plastic substance through a nozzle, die, or opening to give the material shape. The pressure, and friction of the screw and the material, generates considerable heat which is very dangerous when the niaterial operated on 1s an explosive, explosive gelatin being an instance, as an explosion may result if the rotation of the screw and packing or expressing operation beeontinued when the screw is het. In machines for packing explosive through a nozzle to form it into a rope or cartridge, the heat generated in the packing screw becomes very noticeable during operation and care has to be exercised to prevent the temperature from rising too high,'necessitating stoppage or slowing down of the machine with incident loss of time and labor, and diminution of out ut and profits.

To reine y the foregoing defect, the present invention has for its object the provlsion of means for cooling packing or expressing screws regardless of the use to which the may be put, material operated on ctc., thong particularly intended for those employed in machines for packing explosive gelatin, comprising a novel arrangement and construction of artswhereby the screw may be continuous y cooled without interfering with the operation thereof, enabling the machine using the screw to be operated continuously.

The invention is set forth fully hereinafter and its novel features are recited in the appended claims. l I

In the accompanying drawingsz-Figure 1 is a view in side elevation; Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section enlarged with intermediate parts broken away; and Fig. 3 is an` enlarged section on line 3 3 of Fig.v 1.

The materials of which the parts are constructed are not essential to the invention but are indicated as showing what would be Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 24, 1907.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Serial No. 394,426.

most suitable when the invention is embodied in a packing screw for explosive gelatin packing machines.

The bronze screw or worm 1 is provided with a screw threaded connection 2 with its steel shaft 3, the latter being hollow throughout its length and closed at its extremity by a screw plug 4. llxtci'iding inwardly of the shaft 3 and screwed thereto is a nip le 5 which screws into an elbow Screwe into the elbow and extending centrally within the shaft 3 is a pipe 7 which terminates short of the end of screw coupling 2, being there provided with a screw threaded coupling 8.

The screw 1 has a water chamber t) extending centrally thereof from its inner end to a point located Well toward its ti 10, being there rounded at 11. This cham er t) may extend further into tip or may be shorter than as shown.

Screwed into the coupling 8 is a brass pipe 12 of considerably smaller size than the chamber 9 and located centrally thereof, said pipe being open at its end 13 opposite the end 11 of chamber 9. The pipe 12 is referably of less diameter than pipe 7 so t at the water pressure in pipe 12 1s heightened and the water caused to jet with considerable force against the rounded end 11. The pi es 7 and 12 rotatin with the screw and sha ts, the nipple and elliow form a sufficiently rigid support therefor. The detachability of the ipe 12 renders it an easy matter to unscrew it from pipe 7 and remove it withscrew 1 after the latter has been unscrewed from shaft 3, the arrangement permitting the use of differently pitched or sized packing screws with the same shaft.

Surroundin shaft 3 is a stationary brass sleeve 14 having an internal annular water channel 15 located opposite the nipple 5 to supply the water thereto, a feed pipe 16 beiner coupled to this sleeve to suppl i the channel. Screwed on to opposite endls of sleeve 14 are brass glands 17 and 18 having ackin 19. Steel collars 20 and 21, whic are a )ustably secured to shaft 3 by set screws 22, hold the glands in the position to which they are ad'iusted. The 'arrangement descrlbed permits adjustment of the sleeve along shaft 3 so that the Water channel 15 may be brou ht opposite the nipple regardless of any ongitudinal adjustment of the shaft, the packing preventing any leakage of the water whether the screw is rotating or at rest.

The shaft 3 is provided with a water outlet 28. A sleeve 14 having annular water channel 15, outlet pi e 16, glands 17 and 18", packing screws 22* slmilar to those described are ernloyed in connection with the water outlet or the same purpose. The water entering channel 15 passes, via nipple 5, to the pipes 7 and 12 and issues with considerable force against the end 11, returnin inthe chamber 9 around pipe 12 to the sha 3, thence passing through outlet 23. The circulation of the water cools both the packing screw and shaft' 8, while directing the water against the end of the screw cools'ths, the part which heats quickest and greatest.

In machines for acking explosive gelatin, as heretofore, t ere has been no means whereby the temperature of the packing screw n be ascertained, owing to lts inclosure a case, the operator having no way of determining whether the temperature of the screw was approaching the danger point, but with the resent invention, he 1s assured at all times tfiat as lon as the return water is issuing fromthe out et 16, from which it may be collected in any desired way, there 1s no danger to be feared from an explosion from thls source.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination with a packing screw and a shaft detachably connected thereto, of detachable means for supplying a cooling medium to the interior of said screw.

2. The combination with a packing sc rew Vand a shaft detachably connected thereto, of detachable means for supplying a cooling medium to the interior of said screw comp rising a pipe composed of detachable sections.

3;"'The combination with a packing screw 19, co1 ars 20", 21', and set,

noauto and a shaft detachably connected thereto, of detachable means for supplying a cooling medium to the interior of said screw comprismg a pipe composed of detachable sections one of which 1s located loosely within e cate within the shaft.

4. The combinationl with a hollow acking screw and detachable hollow shaft t erefor which are interiorly in communication, of means for supplying a cooling medium to the Interior of the packing screw, and means for takin oil" the cooling medium from the hollow s aft.

5. The combination with a hollow packing screw and hollow shaft therefor which are interiorly in communication, of a pi e extending longitudinall within the ollow shaft and longitudina ly within the packing screw and rotatable therewith, means for supplying a cooling medium to said pipe, and means for taking oif the cooling medium from the hollow shaft.

6. The combination with a hollo packing screw and hollow shaft therefor which are interiorly in communication, of a ipe extendin longitudinally within the ho low shaft an longitudinally within the packing screw, said ipe being attached to and rotating with t e shaft and opening to the exterior thereof, a stulling box in which the shaft is rotatable having a channel communicatin with the pifpe opening aforesaid, an outlet or said sha and a stuiing -box in which the shaft is rotatable having a channel communicating with the outlet aforesaid.

In testimony w ereof, I hereunto ailix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY AUCHU.

H. A.' cox, CHARLES T. LOGAN.

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